The Stroop task remains a fundamental paradigm for investigating cognitive conflict and attentional control. In this task, participants are required to name the ink colour of a word that may itself ...

Some reports indicate that cigarette smoking can help smokers focus attention, even when they have not abstained from smoking for a substantial period of time (eg, >1 h). Understanding the mechanisms ...

The way we see and process information is a key component of how we respond, behave, and perceive the world around us. There are things that our brains automatically process because they are congruent ...

(via SciShow Psych) The task sounds like it should be pretty easy, but the Stroop task is a fantastic, and very well studied, example of how your brain’s automatic processing can trip you up!

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Three experiments showed that the pattern of interference of single-modality Stroop tests also exists cross-modally. Distractors and targets ...